Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MiniMax M2.7

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens for MiniMax M2.7. That is roughly 3.3x on output cost alone.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

MiniMax M2.7

Claude Haiku 4.5

51.9

MiniMax M2.7

57

41%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
62%
BrowseComp
Coming soon
57%
OSWorld-Verified
Coming soon
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Toolathlon
46.3%
Coming soon
MLE-Bench Lite
66.6%
Coming soon
MM-ClawBench
62.7%

Coding

MiniMax M2.7

Claude Haiku 4.5

53.1

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

60%
HumanEval
Coming soon
73.3%
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
46%
SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
23%
FLTEval
Coming soon
Coming soon
SWE Multilingual
76.5%
Coming soon
Multi-SWE Bench
52.7%
Coming soon
VIBE-Pro
55.6%
Coming soon
NL2Repo
39.8%

Multimodal & Grounded

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

82%
MMMU-Pro
Coming soon
74%
OfficeQA Pro
Coming soon
Coming soon
GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

63%
MuSR
Coming soon
81%
BBH
Coming soon
72%
LongBench v2
Coming soon
70%
MRCRv2
Coming soon

Knowledge

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

68%
MMLU
Coming soon
67%
GPQA
Coming soon
65%
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
73%
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
11%
HLE
Coming soon
64%
FrontierScience
Coming soon
65%
SimpleQA
Coming soon
Coming soon
Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

86%
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

82%
MGSM
Coming soon
79%
MMLU-ProX
Coming soon

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

68%
AIME 2023
Coming soon
70%
AIME 2024
Coming soon
69%
AIME 2025
Coming soon
64%
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
66%
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
65%
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
67%
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
81%
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is ahead overall, 61 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 41% and 57%.

Which is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 53.1. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 51.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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